Bomb manufacturing material recovered from Sukkur house

SUKKUR: Khairpur police recovered bomb manufacturing material here on Tuesday. SSP Khairpur Azfar Mahaisar, while holding a press conference, said that a man named Syed Hussain Shah, resident of Sirai Ganwar Khan Muhalla in city Khairpur, informed via 15 helpline about an abandoned bag inside his house.

He said that police, by pursuing his information,  moved to the said address and subsequently called the bomb disposal squad. He said that when the search of the abandoned bag was conducted, the police recovered five-feet safety fuse, one non-electric detonator, two kg calcium ammonium nitrate, 1,100 gram steel nails, nine bearings, hook-type iron nail of one kg, 12 gram ball bearings, 80 gram class 3 explosive, iron wire 2 feet, half litre diesel, half litre petrol and black colored concrete of 2.5 kg. He said that the bag was technically defused.

He said that he himself visited the house and exit and entrance routes of surrounding areas. He said that the police foiled the bid of a saboteur. He said that Khairpur was already declared most sensitive, because its boundaries were touching Jacobabad, Shikarpur, Sukkur and Larkana.

He said that there was already a ban imposed on rallies because there were sabotage alerts. He said that some seminaries of Khairpur were under watch by CTD personnel and police and their administration was grilled about the financing issues, blueprints of students and their activities. He said that within 15 days, during the crackdown many saboteurs were arrested and sent to jail. He said that ASP, city had been assigned to investigate how the bag reached the house and who threw it into the house and what were the reasons behind throwing the bag.